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WordPress REST API, Expired Nonce from Cache results in 403 forbidden

My wordpress site sits behind Akamai, which is a cacheing service similar to Cloudflare. I make the following API call: GET /wp-json/mytheme/v1/get-posts?post_type=videos This ...

June 3, 2022
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Verify Nonce returns false – Request Nonce returns correct value

I’m trying to verify that the nonce I created exists but for some reason it keeps returning false, why is this happening? Creating ...

June 3, 2022
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Security – Ajax and Nonce use [closed]

This question is unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, ...

June 2, 2022
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How to get the wpnonce value?

On using inspect element to check the ‘href’ attribute of ‘Deactivate’ links for the plugins listed on plugins.php page, I found that the ...

June 2, 2022
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Why does WordPress Heartbeat login not refresh the nonces?

Here’s an interesting experiment: Go to wordpress plugins listing page, notice the activate, deactivate links all have a nonce part in the request. ...

June 2, 2022
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Full page NGINX (or Cloudflare) caching and WordPress nonces

Goal: I want to cache the full WordPress response via NGINX and exclusively use the REST API for the user specific parts. Issue: ...

May 31, 2022
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Nonces, AJAX, script variables & security in WordPress

Alright, so let’s say you develop a website where you enqueue a js script on a page X of your frontend, using: wp_enqueue_script( ...

May 31, 2022
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AJAX requests broken due to HTTPS for wp-admin

I have my wp-admin section forced to HTTPS via a plugin. I also have specific pages that are using https on the frontend ...

May 29, 2022
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What’s the purpose of the HTML “nonce” attribute for script and style elements?

W3C says there is a new attribute in HTML5.1 called nonce for style and script that can be used by the Content Security ...

May 29, 2022
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Nonce actions and names available via open source

I am using a plugin which makes its code publicly available. Therefore, anyone can see the $action and $name parameters used to generate ...

May 28, 2022
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